Thursday, October 29, 2026. It's Thor's day . . . long term forecasts for GreenCountry indicate today is likely the last of the warm transitions to truly Fall weather conditions. TulsyTown's afternoon features mid 80's with sun, clouds and moderate Southerlies. Cooling tomorrow with rain chances increasing into and over the weekend.
Meditation is basically an unlearning process. It is undoing and unwinding karmic chain reactions generated by psychological neurosis. – Chögyam Trungpa, The Future Is Open, Shambhala, 2018,
GOP's closing argument. – Robert Reich, It's All They Have, posted today.
Ai by the numbers. – Sam Sifton for The New York Times. 10.28.26
The end of small, locally owned TV news stations with affiliate to ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC has been under way for some time. Here in TulseyTown, Channel 2 and Channel 8 are already corporate owned outside the state. Only Channel 6 remains “locally owned” with it's companion Channel 9 in Oklahoma City. The two are corporate owned, but Oklahoma based.
Most of us are familiar with e.e. cummings observation: “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” We're in that battle every day, and especially now. I daresay, Republicans, the GOP and MAGA are stuggling to make us all one herd of sheep under a Trump flag; Democrats are struggling to facitate and honor the indivual under the Constitution and the American Flag. – jus'sayin'
Nobody changes completely—or all at once. Life is a series of micro-breakthroughs. It took Einstein 30 years. Some you’ll notice, but most you won’t. – Mark Mason, Breakthrough, posted today.